COULD THIS BE A PARALLEL TO THE MASSOUD ASSASSINATION that was the signal for the September 11 attacks?

Kurdish military officials in northern Iraq say one of their senior commanders has been killed by a militant Islamic group suspected of links to the al-Qaeda network.

A commander for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Sherkh Jafar said gunmen posing as defectors from the militant Islamic group, Ansar al-Islam, killed Shawkat Haji Mushir, along with five other people in an ambush on Saturday.

Probably not, but still. . . .